Wow, I can’t believe our first half term is finished already! We have had lots of fun exploring the topic ‘Being Unique’. We have focused on ourselves and what makes us special. From improving our personal best 2km runs to sewing our own unique bags we really have done it all!

In History, we looked at the history of Ab Kettleby. We looked at some old pictures and thought about what we would like to know and how the church is important to the village.  

Our English learning involved describing monsters using a variety of new sentence types and word classes. We expanded our nouns using adjectives and applied our knowledge of punctuation. We then explored the story ‘mixed’ and we had to write the story ourselves.

Maths has been all about place value and addition this half term. In year 2, we explored numbers to 100 and how to represent them in different ways. In year 3, we looked at the same thing but with numbers up to 1000! We have also worked on our addition skills and how we can add different numbers using strategies we have learnt.

Our Art and DT has been nonstop all half term. We have looked at line, drawings, abstract art, self portraits and more! Our focus in our DT lessons has been sewing and making our own pouches. We really enjoyed showing our uniqueness with all our different designs, showing lots of resilience during trickier learning. In addition to our Art and DT work, we have looked at what makes us unique in our PSHE learning and even used Microsoft word to type, copy and paste and use different types of fonts and colours in our computing lessons.

PE has been extremely fun this half term with a focus on football and basketball. We have explored different throwing and kicking techniques and even worked up to playing our own games. In addition to this, we have been taking part in the 2k run challenge. Every week, we ran 2km around the field and tried to beat our time. Many of us slowly improved our times over the half term, fantastic!